The tools give you significant leverage, but they're expensive, so you have to have capital to get the compounding loop going.
- The tools give you significant leverage, but they're expensive, so you have to have capital to get the compounding loop going.
- The more expensive the tools, the more that to get going you have to indebt yourself to someone else more powerful than you.
- When land is impossibly expensive, you have no choice but to be a serf.
- The lord decides who gets the tools and access to his land.
- You have to feed yourself and your family based on the food you make… and give enough kickbacks to the lord that he doesn't kick you off his land.
- To the lord, he's been absurdly generous.
- To the serfs, they are trapped in a structure they can't escape, at the whim of someone who doesn't think of them as a person.
- The lord asks himself: "Why are these serfs so angry with us lords? I'm letting them live on my land. What more do they want?"
- Are we heading into a world of token serfdom?